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Cinthia Ritchie

Author of "Malnourished: A Memoir of Sisterhood and Hunger" and "Dolls Behaving Badly"

Tag: National Poetry Month

Writing and mumbling, with Adrienne Rich and Kristy Bowen

I stayed up most the night writing and I’m a bit wrecked, but only in the best possible way. I’m sure you know how that goes. You start writing and you begin to push aside your defenses, and the longer you write the more layers you unpeel until suddenly all of your defenses are gone… Read More Writing and mumbling, with Adrienne Rich and Kristy Bowen

April 22, 2017April 22, 2017 cinthiaritchie6 Comments

National Poetry Month: Two spider poems

So there I was in the bathroom doing my thing, when I looked up and saw a spider, delicate and black, climbing up the wall. Later that day I saw another spider in the kitchen, and yet another in my writing room. A sign, perhaps, for in Native American myths, spiders are weavers of dreams… Read More National Poetry Month: Two spider poems

April 16, 2016April 16, 2016 cinthiaritchie3 Comments

National Poetry Month and Ales Steger’s “Egg”

So there I was, out in the yard with Seriously and trying, unsuccessfully, to keep her from rolling in the dead, stinky thing over by the trees, when the neighbor came out to feed their chickens. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac, on a slender side street that borders a park and bike… Read More National Poetry Month and Ales Steger’s “Egg”

April 8, 2016April 7, 2016 cinthiaritchie2 Comments

Adrienne Rich, and blueberry vegan muffins

Maybe it’s because I recently had an essay published about my sister (who died of complications of an eating disorder), or maybe because I spoke to my younger sister yesterday, or maybe because I’m worried about my oldest sister, but I can’t get Adrienne Rich’s Women poem out of my head, especially the last line:… Read More Adrienne Rich, and blueberry vegan muffins

April 14, 2013April 14, 2013 cinthiaritchie2 Comments

My moose, and Elizabeth Bishop’s The Moose poem

Today my favorite moose showed up in the yard for a visit. It was nice. Moose always make me happy (except when they charge me on the trails). There is something endearing and comical about their long, thin faces, their knobby knees, their lumbering gaits. (Or, homely as a house, as Bishop writes in her… Read More My moose, and Elizabeth Bishop’s The Moose poem

April 11, 2013 cinthiaritchieLeave a comment

Anne Sexton Rosemary Bread, and Her Kind

In honor of National Poetry Month I’ve decided to highlight some of my favorite poems and poets. First up, of course, is Anne Sexton (who else could possibly be first?). I came across Sexton in college and it was love at first word. I loved the images that flashed through my mind as I read… Read More Anne Sexton Rosemary Bread, and Her Kind

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Recent and upcoming publications

Running into Danger on an Alaskan TrailĀ  in New York Times Magazine.

Sled dog love in Alaska Magazine

Crazy, I knew in Silver Birch Press

Anchorage–A Gift of Diversity, Alaska Dispatch News

“Ten Truths (and ten lies)” upcoming in Deaf Poets Society.

“Second to the last time,” “Beluga Point, Alaska” and “The Weatherwoman had a Boob Job” upcoming in Breath and Shadow.

“How She Lived” upcoming in Grayson Books Forgotten Women anthology

“Conversations before communion,” “Wild breaths / and this” in GNU journal.

Upon hearing that a writing friend had died in Anchorage Press

Paperdolls in Clementine Unbound

Savages in Panoplyzine

Stuttering in Barking Sycamores

Portland in Barking Sycamores

Dead Things in Postcard Poetry and Prose

Fucking a Fisherman in Seward, Alaska in Damfino Press

Milk in 100 Words

Running Trails, Alaska in The Skinny Poetry Journal

Portland II in 101 Words

“Mary With PMS” in Into the Void

“Mary Poppins: The Third Show” and “I’m not you’re baby” in Theories of HER anthology

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Hatcher Pass Marathon race report

Hatcher Pass Marathon race report

It’s been a while. Okay, it’s been like over half a year. Maybe longer. I’m afraid to check. I need to get my ass in gear, I really do. I have three race reports to post, one from way back in April (you remember April, right?). I’ll start in the middle with the Hatcher Pass […]

Sled dog races

Sled dog races

This past weekend we pulled on our boots and warm coats and ventured out to the Campbell Tract trails to watch the Fur Rondy World Championship Sled Dog Races. We walked back into the woods and stood at the side of the trail, no one else around. Everything so quiet; we could hear snow fall […]

Still running, after all this time

Still running, after all this time

Holy, holy, I haven’t posted here in forever. How did that happen? How did time get so far away from me? The good news is that I’m still running. I never stopped running; I simply stopped writing about running and I’m not sure why. Maybe I didn’t have anything to say. Maybe I had too […]

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